{"id":2505,"date":"2012-07-05T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T17:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2306852"},"modified":"2012-07-05T17:15:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T17:15:00","slug":"windows-azure-solution-cookbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/windows-azure-solution-cookbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Azure Solution Cookbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve spent quite a bit of time discussing cloud computing with our customers lately and the common theme among them all has been \u201clean\u201d. Windows Azure can provide some tremendous benefits to nearly every organization we speak with: operating cost reduction, faster time to market, scale on demand. It literally can\u2019t get any leaner that this.<\/p>\n<p>The challenge I\u2019m running into is that it\u2019s hard for architects and developers to get a big picture of the Azure platform and how all the features can be used together to build solutions. Microsoft is shipping new services on a quarterly basis and each new service is designed to solve a particular need our customers are asking for. We need a way to see these services holistically as a set of building blocks or ingredients to use in our solutions. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2306852\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve spent quite a bit of time discussing cloud computing with our customers lately and the common theme among them all has been \u201clean\u201d. Windows Azure can provide some tremendous benefits to nearly every organization we speak with: operating cost&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}